MOSCOW  A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 4,400 miles west of the epicenter.

Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale.

Me too. I’m assigned to this planet for another six months. I’m always worried about my depature being postponed due to this sort of stuff. Has to do with the overall connectivity of the gravity string between our two dimensions and how this is perturbed by non-gravitational movement in large gravitational bodies. It’s weird to me that that even matters.

But sometimes an earthquake like this just means my replacement has arrived...

Don’t worry. We still have six months. I was going to apply for an extension but last time I did that was August of 1939. And a couple weeks later I was having Coffee with a friend in Warsaw and, well, I almost didn’t make it. We’re tough, but not THAT tough.

I did. The Mrs did the heavy lifting before and during the process including trying to get out of Russia w.o getting our son vaccinated. We feared his immune system might be compromised and wanted to get him home for a medical evaluation.

Flew into Kamchatka via Anchorage - then to Moscow - -NYC and home. Around the world in eight days. One of the two best things I ever did,

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posted on 05/24/2013 10:26:03 AM PDT
by don-o
(He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)

Good job. You must have had a real ‘mission accomplished’ feeling when you arrived back home with the boy.

An Internet bud of mine frequently flew into Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (I think that’s where it must have been looking at Google Earth) and from there to various even more remote destinations via Russian MIL helicopters for fly fishing. Each and every trip was an adventure of some kind frequently involving large bears and erupting volcanoes.

As a sad note, he passed away two months ago via Washington State’s assisted suicide law after being diagnosed with Stage 4 something or other cancer. He checked into the Bellingham hospital and we never heard from him again. Sad on many levels. As an additional incidental the bridge collapse on Interstate 5 last night was about 30 miles south of B’ham. As there are very few alternative routes this will greatly affect Seattle-Vancouver transportation and commerce.

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